It’s been nearly a year since we spent a weekend at our farmer friend Brett’s place killing pigs and making sausages. When I went digging for something to make for this week’s Dark Days meal, I found two packages of Hungarian sausages at the bottom of the freezer, transporting me back to our pork “matanza.” […]
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This meal starts with the roasting chicken we received in our weekly CSA package from farmer friend Brett. This is not to be confused with the stewing hen I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. Brett, being a man of many facets, deals in two kinds of chicken. One, the laying hen, needs to […]
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Armed with my new meat grinder, I’ve been anxious to try this trick I first saw performed by Mario Batali: extruding whole-wheat pasta. The sauce was a simple pork ragu made with ground pork ($8 for a little more than one pound at the farmers market), diced onions, diced carrots and, in the absence of […]
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